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7 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Second Intermediate Period incipient / late Middle Kingdom · Ancient Egyptian
Early 13th-Dynasty quartzite-sarcophagus pyramid of Ameny Qemau at South Saqqara — 52 m base c.1793 BCE with intact monolithic sarcophagus and canopic chest.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Hypothetical site
Cretaceous Cachimbo quartzite ridge geology + Munduruku rumor relay onto Fawcett notebook; Lost City Z proper is Kuhikugu 70 km SE (separate problem) · Natural quartzite ridge joints and tower karst misread as Z monumental walls (no culture) — real Z is Kuhikugu nearby
Fawcett Z second ridge phantom 8.5S 50.8W — quartzite joint walls 1.5 km and 8 m tower karst misread as Z citadel east of Cachimbo.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic inland megalithic
Inland Brittany's 400-stone alignment — 500 m rows of quartzite menhirs (to 4.5 m) buried under forest, restored 1990s.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late 12th to early 13th Dynasty (Sobekneferu / Ameny Qemau, c.1795–1785 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (late Middle Kingdom)
Southern companion unfinished pyramid at Mazghuna (late 12th/early 13th Dynasty, Sobekneferu or Ameny Qemau c.1790 BCE).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Second Intermediate Period, early 13th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian (13th Dynasty; king foreign origin 'boar')
Only completed pyramid of 13th Dynasty at South Saqqara, for obscure Levantine-derived king Khendjer (c.
🇧🇼 Botswana · Rock art
Later Stone Age to recent (~8000 BCE – historical) · San (Basarwa) hunter-gatherer and Bantu pastoralist
Four quartzite inselbergs rising abruptly from the Kalahari sandveldt preserve over 4,500 paintings across 500 sites, dominated by the 1,400-m Male Hill.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late Middle Kingdom, late 12th–13th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Two late 12th / early 13th Dynasty mudbrick pyramid ruins 5 km south of Dahshur at Mazghuna village: Southern pyramid 52.5 m base with intact quartzite sarcophagus and 42 t lid in U-shaped quartzite…
